Newton
County College
is Oxford College, Covington Kiddie College, and Troy State University.

Oxford College is
established in a small living, learning community, located 38 miles east of
Atlanta. After its first failure to establish a college the Georgia Methodists
sought and received a charter for a new Methodist liberal arts college located
on a fourteen-hundred acre tract north of Covington in 1836 and officially established
itself 1916. Today Oxford College provides distinctive educational programs
for the first two years leading to an Emory bachelor's degree.

The faculty at Oxford and Emery College consist of 11,680 different
faculty members. Its student body is made up of African-American 14%, American
Indian 1%, Asian or Pacific Islander 31%, Hispanic 5%, and White 44% students.
Approximately 11,680 are enrolled in Oxford College and its sister Emery College.
More than Majors 74 Professional degrees are offered in an average class size
of 17 students. Oxford's programs are liberal arts intensive. After completing
two years on the Oxford campus, students may elect to continue their educations
on the Atlanta campus in Emory College, or they may apply to Emory's Woodruff
School of Nursing or Emory's Goizueta School of Business to complete their degrees.
The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) placed Oxford College in its
top 10% rank among colleges across the nation in each of its five categories
of evaluation.